Known for Directing
Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack (June 8, 1893 – December 23, 1979) was an American motion picture cinematographer, director, and producer. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Schoedsack is probably best remembered for being the co-director of the 1933 film, King Kong. His eyesight was severely damaged in World War II, yet he continued to direct films afterwards. He directed Mighty Joe Young at RKO in 1949, which was a reunion film of the main King Kong creative team (Cooper, Rose, and O'Brien). He married screenwriter, Ruth Rose. They are interred together at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ernest B. Schoedsack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
June 8, 1893
Died
December 23, 1979 (age 86)
Birthplace
Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
Filmography
35 films


Mighty Joe Young
1949 · 1h 34m · US
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.


Dr. Cyclops
1940 · 1h 3m · US
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.


Outlaws of the Orient
1937 · 1h 1m · US
Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his company controls.


Trouble in Morocco
1937 · 1h 2m · US
A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that she is investigating a story that guns are being smuggled illegally into Morocco.


The Last Days of Pompeii
1935 · 1h 36m · US
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.


Long Lost Father
1934 · 1h 3m · US
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.


The Son of Kong
1933 · 1h 10m · US
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.


Blind Adventure
1933 · 1h 3m · US
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the way.


King Kong
1933 · 1h 40m · US
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.


The Most Dangerous Game
1932 · 1h 3m · US
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.


Rango
1931 · 1h 6m · US
The story of Ali and his son Bin, natives of Sumatra, who hunt in a jungle village.


The Four Feathers
1929 · 1h 21m · US
An Englishman (Richard Arlen) fights in the Sudan after receiving white feathers of cowardice from his fiancee (Fay Wray) and friends.


Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
1927 · 1h 9m · US
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.


Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
1925 · 1h 11m · US
A silent documentary which follows a branch of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia as they and their herds make their epic seasonal journey to better pastures.